The
MJ-12 documents are an eight-page memo dated November
18, 1952, outlining the establishment of a secret group by outgoing
President
Harry Truman. The memo was prepared for President-elect Dwight
Eisenhower.

The
document simply describes the fact that the U.S.
government recovered a crashed alien spacecraft and bodies in 1947
outside of
Roswell, New Mexico. It also states that another crash occurred in
Texas near
the Mexican border in 1950. At that time Truman established a group
known as
Majestic-12, sometimes referred to as MJ-12. The purpose of the group
was to
determine how to handle the implications of the Roswell incident and
the
existence of extraterrestrial beings. The original members of the group
were
the very top people in government and science. Since they have all died
and the
names may not be familiar to you, a list of who they were and what
positions
they held is included.

They
are the most dramatic UFO documents ever leaked to
the public!

Where
Did the Documents Come From?

The MJ-12 documents were received on
a roll of
undeveloped 35mm film by UFO researcher Jaime Shandera in 1984.
Shandera had
earlier worked with a group of military intelligence personnel who
referred to
themselves as the "Insiders," who had expressed a desire to have the
true facts about flying saucers released to the public.

The
documents are the first to uncover the true facts of
the dramatic UFO/alien body crash recovery that occurred at Roswell.
The story
of the investigation of the MJ-12 documents alone could fill a book,
and did
(see below).Alien crash at Roswell, NM in 1947

The
Controversy

The MJ-12 documents have undergone
intense scrutiny both
by people who claim they are genuine and by those who claim they are
fake.
Complicating matters is the fact that the actual paper documents have
never
been available for examination. Instead, there are only photos of the
documents
which Shandera received on a roll of film.

Clearing
the Smoke

After clearing the smoke, here is
what remains:

The preponderance of evidence leans
heavily towards those
who think the documents are genuine.

The
research on the "real" side is more
thorough.

The
side arguing that the documents are fake have made
several lightweight claims, most of which were easily refuted by
research. In
fact, the "fake" side, led by known UFO debunker Philip Klass, had to
pay off a $1,000 bet when Klass'claims that certain parts of the
document were
fake were disproved. The check was written out to Stanton Friedman.
Friedman
has kept copies of the cancelled check, and made them available for all
to see.

Here is the key point: Even if the documents had been
faked the research into confirming their authenticity led to finding
160
eyewitnesses who saw or handled wreckage or bodies from the crashed
flying
saucer! Many of these eyewitnesses have signed sworn affidavits. Others
have
given what amounts to dying declarations, both allowable as evidence in
any
court of law in the United States. In addition, all their stories fit
together
like the workings of a fine watch. Their time frames all line up, as do
their
descriptions. The evidence that the crash at Roswell really did occur
is now so
overwhelming that the MJ-12 documents are just a confirmation of the
event.

The
Double Reverse

In another effort to authenticate
the MJ-12 papers, one
researcher used a unique but effective approach. Lee Graham, an
aerospace
worker, realized that anything stamped "Top Secret" (like the MJ-12
papers) fell under government security regulations; specifically,
Department of
Defense regulation 5200.1-R, which requires government employees or
government-contracted workers to report any leak or breach of security
with Top
Secret documents. The forging or faking of Top Secret documents is also
a
violation of this statute.

The FBI Checks Them
Out

Graham reported the MJ-12 documents
as being either
stolen or forged. The FBI spent over one year investigating whether
these
documents were forged or not. The FBI concluded two things:

First,
if the MJ-12 papers were forged, it was an
incredible forgery, unlike any they had ever seen in the past. The
details of
the people and events from fifty years ago were absolutely accurate and
coincided with their internal documents.

And
second, if the documents were real, they could not
get any part of the U.S. government to acknowledge that they had lost
them.

So,
here for your review are the MJ-12 documents. For a
complete history of the MJ-12 documents, get Stanton T. Friedman's
Final Report
on Operation Majestic 12. To see a complete set of the MJ-12 documents,
go to the 'Documents' section of this website

The
Original Members of Majestic-12

Dr. Lloyd V.
Berkener

Explorer and scientist, he headed a
group that later
became the Weapons Systems Evaluation Group. He was also a member of a
CIA
panel that determined that UFOs did not constitute a threat to U.S.
national
security. Berkener was the executive director at Carnegie Institute,
and was a
member of the Joint Research and Development Board in 1946.Dr. Lloyd
Berkener

Dr. Detlev
Bronk

Physiologist, aviation expert, and
prominent member of
the National Academy of Science, he served as president of both Johns
Hopkins
and Rockefeller Universities. He was chairman of the Nuclear Research
Committee
and the medical advisor for the Atomic Energy Commission. Bronk also
served on
the Scientific Advisory Committee of Brookhaven National Laboratory
where he
worked with Dr. Edward Condon (who completed a major UFO study for the
Air
Force).Dr. Detlev
Bronk

Dr. Vannevar Bush

A leader in research and development
at MIT and Carnegie
Institute, he was at one time the head of each of the following: Office
of
Scientific Research and Development, the Joint Research and Development
Board,
and the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics. The Office of
Scientific
Research and Development was responsible for the development of the
atomic bomb.
Bush also put together the National Defense Research Council in 1941.Dr. Vannevar
Bush

James Forrestal

Forrestal was under secretary of the
Navy, then secretary
of the Navy. He became the first secretary of Defense in 1947, during
the time
of the Roswell crash. In 1949 he committed a very mysterious suicide.
There was
talk that he didn't want to hide the truth about flying saucers from
the
public. His suicide was considered to be just as weird in his day as
the Vince
Foster suicide was during the Clinton administration.James
Forrestal

Gordon Gray

Secretary of the Army, he later held
several high
security positions under Presidents Truman and Eisenhower. He was also
a
consultant on UFOs and reported directly to CIA Director Walter B.
Smith.Gordon Gray

Admiral Roscoe
Hillenkoetter

He was the first director of the
Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA). Later he became a member of NICAP, the National
Investigations
Committee on Aerial Phenomena. He publicly stated that "UFOs are real É
through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe
the unknown
flying objects are nonsense."Admiral
Roscoe Hillenkoetter

Dr. Jerome Hunsaker

Head of the National
Advisory Committee on Aeronautics;
chairman of the Departments of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
at MIT.Dr. Jerome Hunsaker

Dr. Donald
Menzel

Director of the Harvard College
Observatory and an expert
in cryptoanalysis, the science of breaking codes and deciphering
unknown
languages and symbols. Menzel was involved in very high-level
intelligence
operations during and after World War II.Dr. Donald Menzel

General Robert M.
Montegue

Head of the Armed Forces Special
Weapons Center, he was
also an Army general at Fort Bliss and as such had control over the
White Sands
Nuclear Research facility and the Sandia Atomic Energy Commission
facility at
Albuquerque, New Mexico during the time of the saucer crash at Roswell.General Robert Montegue

Admiral Sidney Souers

Souers was the first director of
Central Intelligence,
the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency. He was also a member
of the
National Security Council and a special consultant for military
intelligence
operations.Admiral Sidney Souers

General Nathan
Twining

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, Chief of Staff of
the U.S. Air Force, Twining was also the commander of the Air Materiel
Command
based at Wright-Patterson Air base, where the debris and bodies from
the
Roswell crash were taken. Twining was known to have cancelled a
scheduled trip
on July 8, 1947, just days after the crash at Roswell and the same day
Roswell
Army Air Base sent out a press release stating that a flying saucer had
been
recovered. In a now-famous memo, Twining stated that UFOs were very
real.General Nathan Twining

General Hoyt Vandenburg

Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force
and former director
of Central Intelligence, he was allegedly in charge of security for the
MJ-12
group.
Vandenburg Air Force base in California, where the space shuttle often
lands, is named after him.General Hoyt Vandenburg